Happy St Patrick’s Day!! Today is a day to Eat, Drink and be Irish. I recently found this great recipe for Irish Champ. My family LOVED it and it is going to become part of our St Patty’s tradition. Taitneamh a bhaint as!
adapted from all recipes
Ingredients:
2 pounds potatoes peeled and halved
1 cup milk
1 bunch of green onions thinly sliced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter
1 pinch freshly ground pepper
Bring potatoes to a boil in a large pot. Cook unitl tender approx. 20 minutes.
Heat onions and milk in a saucepan
Mash the potatoes, salt and butter together until smooth. Stir in the milk and green onion until evenly mixed. Season with fresh ground pepper. Serve piping hot in bowls with extra butter to add as you wish.
I recently received a notification that my BC college friend Peter Maddocks was in a small independent short film that is circulating the film festival circuit. I wanted to get involved and donate to help with the circulation. I received a code to watch it online. It was really sweet. Only 17 minutes but a cute feel good romantic comedy story. There is a special offer of donating $10 to get your code to watch the film on your laptops, computer, or smartphone. To donate please click HERE. Let’s help keep this film going. I promise you Pete is going to give Leo a run for his money and he PROMISES to keep us posted on his other upcoming projects!!!
For all of those lucky travellers heading out for Spring Break this month, I have collected some great reads. They are all on my own list. So whether you will be sitting on a beach, travelling for hours on planes, trains and automobiles or just enjoying a relaxing staycation, these titles are for you. Bon Voyage!
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started.
Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .
For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await. Summary Amazon.com
Enter Henry, the former college fiancé she never quite got over; now a hedge fund mogul. He becomes her largest client, and Belle gets to see the life she might have had with him. While Henry campaigns to win Belle back, the sexually harassed women in her office take action to improve their working conditions, and recruit a wary Belle into a secret “glass ceiling club” whose goal is to mellow the cowboy banking culture and get equal pay for their work. All along, Belle can sense the financial markets heading toward their soon-to-be historic crash and that something has to give—and when it does, everything is going to change: her marriage, her career, her world, and her need to keep her colleagues’ hands to themselves. Summary Amazon.com
But when a slight lapse in judgment at an office party leaves him humiliatingly unemployed, stuck at home with Caleb for the summer, and forced to face his own estranged father, Charlie starts to realize that there’s more to fatherhood than financially providing for his son, and more to being a son than overtaking his father’s successes.
At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, This Was Not the Plan is a story about loss and love, parenthood, and friendship, and what true work-life balance means. Summary Amazon.com
Debut novelist Cristina Alger is a former analyst at Goldman Sachs, an attorney, and the daughter of a Wall Street financier. Drawing on her unique insider’s perspective, Alger gives us an irresistible glimpse into the highest echelons of New York society—and a fast-paced thriller of epic proportions that powerfully echoes Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children and reads like a fictional Too Big to Fail. Summary Amazon.com
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My friend sent this house to me. It is not too far away in Stamford Ct. The property is picturesque and the house just adorable. What really caught my eye was the decor and use of color. I also love the mixture of modern and more traditional touches. How cool is the original lady portrait in the contemporary great groom? For more information on this home, please contact christineo@higginsgroup.com.
